Example sentences of "it be too [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 But it 's too simplistic to pretend that one way is better than the other because the comparison is n't between like and like .
2 Of course , erm there 's a lot more individual responsibility is needed than that , but it 's too simplistic to say that that erm to smile upon these people who have problems would solve everything erm but erm to make it your own responsibility to find out more and to find out the ways in which you can help I think is very important and is everybody 's responsibility .
3 And I do n't think that it 's too far-fetched to assume that person is one and the same ! ’
4 ‘ I suppose it 's too much to expect that you might look at what 's happened today from my point of view . ’
5 Determined to change the conversation , she opened her mouth to make a remark about the surrounding countryside , but he said suddenly , ‘ It 's too much to hope that a beautiful girl like you has had no experience .
6 Fifty years after er the end of second world war , it 's too early to speak that this history should n't have any more influence on German politics .
7 No , it 's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern .
8 It is too strong to say that it has been corrupted — after all , James I dished out so many knighthoods ( 2,600 ) that the Venetian ambassador to London thought the knights ‘ no longer distinguishable from common people ’ — but at best it is dull .
9 It is too easy to say that the Opposition are just scaremongering and making it all up , and it will not be as bad as we fear .
10 It is too easy to assume that older patients can not inject their own insulin and thus need to involve relatives or the district nurse .
11 It is too simplistic to suggest that by offering improved opportunities in a less restrictive setting , individuals with often severe learning difficulties , frequently additional disabilities , and histories of damaging experiences , will thereby have access to improved , more satisfying life-styles .
12 It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ .
13 It is too much to suggest that the " T R " of the Bignor mosaics ( pI .
14 Perhaps it is too much to hope that the Court of Appeal ( in their forthcoming judgment in the Sutcliffe case ) will give definitive guidance on what should be included in the judge 's summing up in a libel trial .
15 Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour .
16 It is too much to hope that EMI will raid its archives for Solomon 's Chopin , Debussy or Haydn but to keep the work of one of the greatest exponents of the Beethoven sonatas under wraps for so long ( the sonata recordings were last issued in 1972 ) is simply incredible ; especially considering the efforts EMI have gone to in issuing the Beethoven recordings of others .
17 IT is too much to hope that John Major 's vision of a ‘ classless society ’ can be realised at the drop of a hat but , if that what he wants , he might at least try to create a climate of equality .
18 Although it is too fanciful to believe that the later Last Tango in Paris could have been influenced by John and Mary , there are nonetheless similarities between the two seemingly worlds-apart movies .
19 It was too much to hope that any sign of human presence in the tree would have survived two and a half wintry weeks .
20 He knew none of his neighbours , except as furtive faces glimpsed at windows , and now — though it was too late to change that — he regretted it .
21 By the time Isabel died , it was too late to alter that , for she was herself already wasting . ’
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